From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Fawad Lateef <fawad_lateef@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Need help in creating 8GB RAMDISK
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 09:57:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040704165739.GG21066@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040704092523.58214.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com>
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 02:25:23AM -0700, Fawad Lateef wrote:
> I am creating a RAMDISK of 7GB (from 1GB to 8GB). I
> reserved the RAM by changing the code in
> arch/i386/mm/init.c ..........
> But I am not able to access the RAM from 1GB to 8GB in
> a kernel module ........ after crossing the 4GB RAM,
> the system goes into standby state. But if I insert
> the same module 2 times means one for 1GB to 4GB and
> other for 4GB to 8GB. and mount them seprately both
> works fine ............
> Can any one tell me the reason behind this ??? I think
> that in a single module we can't access more than 4GB
> RAM ...... If this is the reason then what to do ??? I
> need 7GB RAMDISK as a single drive ....
The state of affairs here is too sad to describe. You are going to
have to find some other way to do what you're trying to do.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-04 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-04 9:25 Need help in creating 8GB RAMDISK Fawad Lateef
2004-07-04 14:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-04 16:57 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-07-04 19:53 ` Joel Jaeggli
2004-07-09 20:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-10 14:26 Fawad Lateef
2004-07-10 21:43 ` John Richard Moser
2004-07-11 4:19 Fawad Lateef
2004-07-11 6:32 ` Junio C Hamano
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